The oxygen content of the Earth's surface environment is thought to have increased in two
broad steps: the Great Oxygenation Event (GOE) around the Archean–Proterozoic boundary …

The Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation (ca. 635–551Ma) in South China contains
exceptionally well-preserved fossils of multicellular eukaryotes including early animals, and …

We present here a first-order analysis of the Neoproterozoic continental rift basins in South
China, focusing on the north-south trending Kangdian basin in the western part, and the …

The gradual discovery that late Neoproterozoic ice sheets extended to sea level near the
equator poses a palaeoenvironmental conundrum. Was the Earth's orbital obliquity> …

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Glacial deposits of Sturtian and Marinoan age occur in the well-studied Neoproterozoic
successions of northern Namibia, South Australia, and northwestern Canada. In all three …

Chemostratigraphy has diverse applications to investigating the rock record, such as
reconstructing paleoenvironments, determining the tectonic setting of sedimentary basins …

Recent geochemical data from Oman, Newfoundland, and the western United States
suggest that long-term oxidation of Ediacaran oceans resulted in progressive depletion of a …

The Cambrian diversification of animals was long thought to have begun with an explosive
phase at the start of the Tommotian Age. Recent stratigraphic discoveries, however, suggest …

The existence of unusually large fluctuations in the Neoproterozoic (1,000–543 million years
ago) carbon-isotopic record implies strong perturbations to the Earth's carbon cycle. To …